Mariner 9 made it into space and set a course for the Red Planet. The Mariner 9 spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA) Mars obscured After 167 days flying in space, Mariner 9 reached Mars on Nov. 14, 1971. It fired its rocket for just over 15 minutes to put itself into orbit — a ...
The first spacecraft to orbit another planet was US Mariner 9. It was launched on 30th May 1971 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Mariner 9 reached the orbit of planet Mars on 14th November 1971 beating the Soviet’s Mars 2 and Mars 3 both of which arrived within a month....
Mariner 9: First Spacecraft to Orbit Mars Mariner 4: First Spacecraft to Mars When Mariner 10 lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Nov. 3, 1973, very little was known about our neighbors in the solar system. Mariner 10 would only have quick flybys past Venus and Mercury, to be sure. Bu...
China's first Mars probe Tianwen-1 has successfully entered the orbit of the Red Planet on Wednesday after a crucial braking system was activated to decelerate the spacecraft's speed, enabling it to be captured by Mars gravity, according to China National Space Administration (CNSA). A...
China's first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 blasts off from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan province, April 20, 2017. (Xinhua/Ju Zhenhua) WENCHANG, Hainan, April 20 (Xinhua) -- China has taken another step toward its goal of putting a space station into orbit around ...
Prior to that, in 2012, the Dragon cargo spacecraft made history when it was the first private spacecraft to berth with the ISS. Since then, Dragon has continued carrying cargo to the ISS under commercial agreements with NASA. Most recently, in the summer of 2020, SpaceX launched two ...
The Chang'e-5 lunar probe has been successfully launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan to collect samples from the moon's surface and return to earth – China's maiden attempt to retrieve materials from an ex
Intuitive Machines has landed its Odysseus spacecraft on the moon, making it the first private company to achieve a feat previously only accomplished by national space agencies
the spacecraft would now cross the lunar path, before the Moon had a chance to come close enough to pull the probe into its gravitational field. The spacecraft was reported to be in a 146 by 197-million-kilometer orbit around the Sun between oribts of Earth and Mars, thus becoming the...
The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary mission successfully took off from the southern tip of Japan on July 20th, sending up a car-sized probe bound for the planet Mars. The spacecraft, called Hope, will now spend the next seven months traveling